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Post by the light works on Nov 10, 2021 22:37:47 GMT
well researchers have found that wild waterfowl do ingest birdshot; which is why lead birdshot has been prohibited for hunting. An interesting story about the birds eating lead buckshot. In the late 1800s, a farmer decided to donate his entire farm to the local village. It was very large plot of land covering hundreds of acres. there were only two speculations. First, the land that had to be used for public good. It could not be sold off or used for housing or business. The second speculation was that there was a skeet shoot gun club that had a range on the land and that they would continue to be able to use the land indefinitely. So we fast forward many years. The village, now a city, built a hospital, a high school, a recreation center, tennis courts, baseball fields, public gardens, and a band shell on the property. And the skeet gun club remained. said he didn’t like the idea of the gun club being on the land, but there wasn’t too much they could do about it. So we enter the 80s and the EPA comes along with a new environmental standard limiting the amount of lead that can be contained in the soil. So the city sees this as an their chance. They demand that the gun club either clean up the lead from around the skeet shoot or they are going to condemn the land and the gun club will be evicted. The city knew that the gun club could not afford to clean up the land. So off to court they go. After many years of legal battle, the courts sided on the side of the gun club. The court told his city, per the original agreement, that if the city evicted the gun club for any reason, all the land we go back to the family heirs of the farmer. Including the hospital, high school, recreation Center, and various parks. The city had a change of heart and decided to pay for the cleanup and let the gun club stay. To this day, you can still hear the boom boom boom of the schedulers every Wednesday and Sunday evening. if the city had kept quiet, they could have avoided paying for the cleanup. and if I was a skeet shooter, I would have transferred to steel shot pretty quickly, anyway. plenty of energy to break a clay, and higher muzzle velocities with less deformed pellets creating "flyers" in fact, when I was loading shotshells for noncompetitive clays, I used steel. |
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Post by GTCGreg on Nov 10, 2021 22:44:07 GMT
An interesting story about the birds eating lead buckshot. In the late 1800s, a farmer decided to donate his entire farm to the local village. It was very large plot of land covering hundreds of acres. there were only two speculations. First, the land that had to be used for public good. It could not be sold off or used for housing or business. The second speculation was that there was a skeet shoot gun club that had a range on the land and that they would continue to be able to use the land indefinitely. So we fast forward many years. The village, now a city, built a hospital, a high school, a recreation center, tennis courts, baseball fields, public gardens, and a band shell on the property. And the skeet gun club remained. said he didn’t like the idea of the gun club being on the land, but there wasn’t too much they could do about it. So we enter the 80s and the EPA comes along with a new environmental standard limiting the amount of lead that can be contained in the soil. So the city sees this as an their chance. They demand that the gun club either clean up the lead from around the skeet shoot or they are going to condemn the land and the gun club will be evicted. The city knew that the gun club could not afford to clean up the land. So off to court they go. After many years of legal battle, the courts sided on the side of the gun club. The court told his city, per the original agreement, that if the city evicted the gun club for any reason, all the land we go back to the family heirs of the farmer. Including the hospital, high school, recreation Center, and various parks. The city had a change of heart and decided to pay for the cleanup and let the gun club stay. To this day, you can still hear the boom boom boom of the schedulers every Wednesday and Sunday evening. if the city had kept quiet, they could have avoided paying for the cleanup. and if I was a skeet shooter, I would have transferred to steel shot pretty quickly, anyway. plenty of energy to break a clay, and higher muzzle velocities with less deformed pellets creating "flyers" in fact, when I was loading shotshells for noncompetitive clays, I used steel. I think the skeet club had already went with steel shoot even before the city threatened them. But there was still a lot of lead shot in the dirt from almost 100 years of shooting. I remember it took a long time for the city to get the land cleaned up. |
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Post by rmc on Nov 11, 2021 10:57:46 GMT
Would bird see covering iron pellets... well researchers have found that wild waterfowl do ingest birdshot; which is why lead birdshot has been prohibited for hunting. But would steel pellets result in being pulled by ACME giant magnets!? Now, there's the real question! Lol |
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Post by the light works on Nov 11, 2021 14:49:26 GMT
well researchers have found that wild waterfowl do ingest birdshot; which is why lead birdshot has been prohibited for hunting. But would steel pellets result in being pulled by ACME giant magnets!? Now, there's the real question! Lol I forget the relationship between the mass of the ferrous metal and the amount of attraction the magnet can apply. I recall on the old Disco board, a scrapyard operator pointed out the limitations of the scrapyard magnets and one was that the sheet metal of a car was not enough for the magnet to lift the entire car. it had to get something more solid. so one factor would be the mass of metal in relation to the mass of the bird. the other would be the "reach" of the magnet. I wonder if there is a way to focus magnetic attraction in order to make a magnet attract things from further away. |
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Post by GTCGreg on Nov 11, 2021 15:34:03 GMT
I don’t think they make a magnet any stronger than those ACME magnets.
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Post by rmc on Nov 11, 2021 15:58:52 GMT
I don’t think they make a magnet any stronger than those ACME magnets. |
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Post by rmc on Nov 11, 2021 16:15:28 GMT
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Post by wvengineer on Nov 13, 2021 17:01:17 GMT
I don't remember the exact equations off the top of my head, but magnetism follows the same inverse square law as RF. Double the distance, quarter the magnetic force.
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Post by rmc on Nov 14, 2021 20:06:09 GMT
I don't remember the exact equations off the top of my head, but magnetism follows the same inverse square law as RF. Double the distance, quarter the magnetic force. True that Coulomb's law defines field strength falling away as the inverse square law. But, generally, that's for point charges. Meaning a point, like an electron, having charge that generates field lines spreading away in all directions evenly. A magnet, or any other system complicated by have two poles, bends those field lines round such that strength falls away much more rapidly. As a cube rather than square, apparently, and approximately: van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=419&t=magnet-at-a-distance |
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Post by GTCGreg on Nov 14, 2021 23:17:01 GMT
I don't remember the exact equations off the top of my head, but magnetism follows the same inverse square law as RF. Double the distance, quarter the magnetic force. True that Coulomb's law defines field strength falling away as the inverse square law. But, generally, that's for point charges. Meaning a point, like an electron, having charge that generates field lines spreading away in all directions evenly. A magnet, or any other system complicated by have two poles, bends those field lines round such that strength falls away much more rapidly. As a cube rather than square, apparently, and approximately: van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=419&t=magnet-at-a-distanceReply moved from World News thread. The force is not just a matter of distance, but also what the material is that is being attracted to the magnet. When you put a piece of ferrous material, such as iron, near a magnet, the magnetic field from that magnet actually causes the peace of ferrous material to become magnetized. So what you have is two magnets being attracted to one another. If you put a piece of nonferrous metal, such as copper, aluminum, stainless steel, in the magnetic field, it is not magnetized and therefore is not attracted to the magnet no matter how close the distance. Bismuth is an interesting element. If you put a piece of bismuth in a magnetic field, it becomes magnetized in the opposite polarity of the magnet. Bismuth will always be repelled by a magnet, not attracted to it. |
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Post by ironhold on Apr 8, 2022 17:26:20 GMT
www.gocomics.com/overboard/2022/04/08"Overboard", 8 April 2022 Someone told a sailor that putting a ring of marigolds around their garden would discourage rabbits from eating their vegetables. In the strip, it clearly failed. But is there anything to support the belief?
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Post by GTCGreg on Apr 8, 2022 21:36:58 GMT
www.gocomics.com/overboard/2022/04/08"Overboard", 8 April 2022 Someone told a sailor that putting a ring of marigolds around their garden would discourage rabbits from eating their vegetables. In the strip, it clearly failed. But is there anything to support the belief? According to the interweb, rabbits don't especially like marigolds, but will occasionally eat them, but if there is something more appetizing beyond the marigolds, they will just go past the marigolds to get to the more appetizing plants. |
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Post by the light works on Apr 9, 2022 0:50:12 GMT
the secret it to plant a wide band of strawberries around your entire garden. the rabbits will get full before they get to your vegetables.
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Post by rmc on Apr 9, 2022 12:16:10 GMT
the secret it to plant a wide band of strawberries around your entire garden. the rabbits will get full before they get to your vegetables. Just feed the rabbits. They'll get full, become bored, have nothing to do, and slowly over time, become fewer and fewer as they leave. See!? Rock solid plan!! I'm a genius!!! Just appease the rabbits. What are they gonna do? Multiply somehow, in some unimaginable process, utterly unknowable to us? |
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Post by the light works on Apr 9, 2022 15:46:57 GMT
the secret it to plant a wide band of strawberries around your entire garden. the rabbits will get full before they get to your vegetables. Just feed the rabbits. They'll get full, become bored, have nothing to do, and slowly over time, become fewer and fewer as they leave. See!? Rock solid plan!! I'm a genius!!! Just appease the rabbits. What are they gonna do? Multiply somehow, in some unimaginable process, utterly unknowable to us? it's more a protection racket than appeasement. |
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Post by GTCGreg on Apr 9, 2022 19:52:24 GMT
You could always develop a taste for rabbit stew.
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Post by ironhold on Dec 15, 2022 19:43:38 GMT
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Post by WhutScreenName on Dec 20, 2022 22:32:50 GMT
Clearly it wouldn't go straight up like that. But I feel like a blast could certainly be strong enough to blow the cap off and not knock over the person. Winds have blown my hat off before, and I didn't fall over. |
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Post by ironhold on Feb 27, 2024 19:11:40 GMT
www.gocomics.com/pickles/2004/03/27This is part of a week of strips premised on someone's hearing aid being able to pick up terrestrial radio signals. Note that the strip is from 2004, so it's possible that there was a problem with hearing aids back then that modern devices don't have.
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Post by GTCGreg on Feb 27, 2024 20:05:49 GMT
www.gocomics.com/pickles/2004/03/27This is part of a week of strips premised on someone's hearing aid being able to pick up terrestrial radio signals. Note that the strip is from 2004, so it's possible that there was a problem with hearing aids back then that modern devices don't have. A lot of high gain audio amplifiers can pick up radio transmissions under the right (or maybe wrong) conditions. A hearing aid is just a small high gain audio amplifier, so yeah, I can see, or should I say "hear", that happening. |
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